balanced budget – Texas on the Potomachttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac
Washington news with a Texas accentMon, 16 Nov 2015 20:28:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Texas lawmakers push to balance budget, wish a Happy Birthday to Speaker Boehnerhttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/11/texas-lawmakers-push-to-balance-budget-wish-a-happy-birthday-to-speaker-boehner/
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Top Texas lawmakers are giving their two cents on the #BBA (Balanced Budget Amendment) and their support for our veterans of war.]]>https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/11/texas-lawmakers-push-to-balance-budget-wish-a-happy-birthday-to-speaker-boehner/feed/0Ron Paul: These purported budget cuts are not real budget cutshttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/ron-paul-these-purported-budget-cuts-are-not-real-budget-cuts/
https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/ron-paul-these-purported-budget-cuts-are-not-real-budget-cuts/#respondMon, 01 Aug 2011 21:22:24 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=17654"One might think that the recent drama over the debt ceiling involves one side wanting to increase or maintain spending with the other side wanting to drastically cut spending, but that is far from the truth," says Ron Paul. "In spite of the rhetoric being thrown around, the real debate is over how much government spending will increase."]]>https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/ron-paul-these-purported-budget-cuts-are-not-real-budget-cuts/feed/0TexMessage: John Cornyn wants a balanced budget amendment; Obama wants Congress to do more workhttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/texmessage-john-cornyn-wants-a-balanced-budget-amendment-obama-wants-congress-to-do-more-work/
https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/texmessage-john-cornyn-wants-a-balanced-budget-amendment-obama-wants-congress-to-do-more-work/#respondThu, 30 Jun 2011 14:22:38 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=14021Texas Sen. John Cornyn would like to see a balanced-budget amendment added to the Constitution. President Obama would like to see Congress finish its homework rather than plan its summer vacation. The rest of us wonder when the grown-ups are going to take charge in Washington. Details in today's TexMessage.]]>https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/texmessage-john-cornyn-wants-a-balanced-budget-amendment-obama-wants-congress-to-do-more-work/feed/0Sheila Jackson Lee’s can’t slow down Republican balanced-budget amendment freight trainhttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/sheila-jackson-lees-balanced-budget-amendment-caveat-shot-down/
https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/sheila-jackson-lees-balanced-budget-amendment-caveat-shot-down/#respondSat, 18 Jun 2011 22:42:38 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=12734Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, tried but failed to include language protecting funding for Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security as part of a House Judiciary Committee Balanced Budget Amendment.
The Amendment, which passed the committee with a 20-12 party-line vote this week, would require require a balance in the projected revenues and expenditures of the federal government but is unlikely to win the two-thirds vote needed to pass the Republican House.
“I am disappointed,” Jackson Lee said. “We must get our fiscal house in order… but we must also protect the vulnerable.”]]>https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/sheila-jackson-lees-balanced-budget-amendment-caveat-shot-down/feed/0